Knit undergarment.



M. ERSTLING.

KNIT UNDERGARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 6. 1914.

1,1 34,598, Patented Apr. 6, 1915.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFTCE.

MAX ERSTLING, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

KNIT UNDERGARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

"Patented Apr. 6, 1915.

Application filed July 6, 1914. Serial No. 849,037.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MAX ERSTLING, of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Knit Undergarments, whereof the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to undergarments usually known as union suits, in which the body and leg portions are permanently united.

Briefly described my invention consists of a tubular knitted body portion the front half of which is cut away from the regionof the waist line downward leaving only a de pending flap at the front. The remaining portion of the tube is slit centrally at the back from the waistline downward, to form in part, the leg portions which are completed both back and front by supplemental pieces which are seamed to each other, and also to the edges of the slit portions of the tube, and further united at the front to the depending flap already mentioned, and at the back at the waist line.

The garment produced according to my invention is so pieced and seamed as to leavean opening extending from a point directly below the waist line at the front down to the crotch and at the back from the latter point upward to the center of the waist line; The pieces forming the front and back leg portions are provided with overlapping flaps which normally close the opening above referred to.

My invention will be better understood by reference to the accompanying drawing in which- Figure I, is a front view of an undergarment conveniently illustrating my improvements. Fig. II, is a rear View of the same. Fig. III, is a perspective view showing the manner of cutting the main portion of the garment from a knitted tnb'e.

The garment as shown is made from tubular knitting. The upper or body portion 1, is thus made, and is provided with shoulder straps 2, forming the usual neck and arm apertures. The front half of the tube is cut away below the waist line whereby the body portion 1, terminates in front, in a depending flap 3. The remaining back half of the tube is extended, below the waist to the bottom of the leg portions, and slit at the top to the depending curved flap 3, by stitching from the point 15, to the point 10. The stitching 12-l3, terminates at the crotch of the garment thereby forming a tubular leg portion having an opening between the points 12'15, in the front, and in the rear between points 8-12.

The'leg portion 5, is formed similar to the leg portion 4, in that it includes a supplementalpiece 17, at the rear of the extension 16, stitched thereto along the line 819.

The said leg portion 5, is completed at the front by piece 24, which is in turn stitched -to the parts 16,and 17, along the lines 2021 and 12-23, the latter seam terminating like'seam 1213, in the crotch of the garment. Piece 24,- is likewise attached at the top .to the depending curved portion 3, of the body portion 1, along the line 20-25. The tube for leg 5, is therefore also provided with an opening extending in the front between points 12-25, and at the rear between points 812.

The joining of the flap 3 at its lower edge to the front leg portions avoids any seam at the waist line in front which would cause discomfort under pressure of the weight of the lower parts of the garment.

The opening at the front of the garment is closed by overlapping flaps 30, and 31, formed respectively on the front leg portions 14, and 24, this overlap extending along the seam 1020, between the points 15.25. At the rear of the garment, the opening is closed by the overlapping upper portions 32, 33, of the pieces 7, and 17. This overlap extends to the line 3435, forming the attachment of these pieces at the top to the body portion 1.

It will be noted from the above description that my improved garment as shown, consists of five separate pieces, so cut and inter-seamed as to form a union garment having an opening extending from a point slightly below the waist line in front to a tions, with provision of an opening extending both back and front from the Waist line 15 to the crotch, and overlapping flaps secured to said supplemental pieces for closing the opening both back and front.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name at Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 20 Vania, this first day of July, 1914.

MAX ERSTLING.

lVitnesses JAMES H. BELL, E. L. FULLERTON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

